From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Clean up sha1 file writing
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:44:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44808710.1080000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605241145490.5623@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2006, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
>
>>> checking for partial writes
>> Just out of interest: is this to be safe on any OS or should this
>> be checked always?
>
> Any POSIX-conformant OS/filesystem should always do a full write for a
> regular file, unless a serious error happens.
>
Actually, at least Linux won't, if the object is larger than 2 GB on a 64-bit system :)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-02 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-24 15:30 Clean up sha1 file writing Linus Torvalds
2006-05-24 18:14 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-05-24 18:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-02 18:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-06-02 21:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-04 18:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-04 18:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-04 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-04 19:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-24 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-24 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-25 0:19 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20060524203108.70b6c596.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-25 0:31 ` Sean
2006-05-25 1:22 ` [PATCH] cat-file: document -p option Jeff King
2006-05-26 5:36 ` Clean up sha1 file writing Junio C Hamano
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